Since I never turn off my pc (I use it to warm the office) I never see that
start-up behaviour and I set it to scan at night.
jez
On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Chuck Norcutt <
chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've been using AVG for the last couple of years but it too seems to be
> becoming more intrusive. My computer is almost unusable for the first 2
> or 3 minutes after the first boot of the day because AVG is churning the
> disk mercilessly. I have no idea what it's doing but it does hundreds
> of thousands of I/O operations in a short period of time. It then goes
> quiet but wakes up at odd moments a couple of times/day for a few
> seconds of thrash the disk. When it finally comes time to do a virus
> scan for the day it's so resource intensive that the computer is nearly
> unusable even after I click its lower priority switch. I've given to
> giving it a start time after I've gone to bed and let it shut down the
> machine afterwards. Since I can do other things for the first few
> minutes after the morning boot and can sleep while it's doing the virus
> scan none of these shenanigans have caused me to think seriously yet
> about replacing it but it could be getting to that point. I just wish I
> knew exactly what it was doing and why.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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